Vietnam and Cambodia

Ho Chi Minh City opera house

A tuk-tuk
ride from the centre of Phnom Penh is the magnificent,
brick-and-concrete, 1960s Olympic Stadium, built for an event that
never came to the city. It survived the Khmer Rouge, and has now
become an open-air gym for anyone who wants to bet on kick-boxing,
play or watch basketball, or do a variety of t'ai chi. Along with
what seems to be a sizeable portion of the city's population, go
just before dusk. You can watch Cambodians in their thousands,
dancing to a disco beat and waving up-stretched arms as the light
turns quickly violet, then a smudged green, finally black.

I found that
I loved being in both Vietnam and Cambodia. Most people go to one
or other country on their way somewhere else, as a stopover between
Thailand, China or Singapore, or on the way to Australia or back.
It's better to see both places, and I'm still trying to think of a
way to get back.